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NOW · BUILDING a corpus of physical-world tacit knowledge

JOONA
HEINO.
i.
Extropist
For an ever-rising ceiling of what life can become.
ii.
Accelerationist
Speed is on our side; the brakes are mostly cowardice.
iii.
Amateur
In the old sense: amator, lover-of.
Joona Heino
FIG. 1  The proprietor, in Finland.
— A SHORT CREDO —

Truth, freedom, and human flourishing.
Make the pie bigger.

AI · writing · combat sports · philosophy · working dogs · doing things · expertise, taste, quality, value systems, memes, status · occupational archetypes across history and culture.


+ Projects for fun and profit.
19 ENTRIES
§ 01
Writing
(04)
§ 02
Experiments
(09)
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status llms
How AI models perceive status across different models and temperatures.
03
pragmatic knowledge corpus
Testing frontier AI models on 40 physical-world professions — what do they know about work they've never done?
04
occupational similarities embeddings
100+ occupations vs 100+ theme words — is an astronaut more adventurous than an accountant?
05
40hz gamma entrainment rig
Stimulate your brain via audio and light to potentially increase gamma activity.
06
nietzsche-bot
From 2022, when RAG, vector databases and embeddings were new to me.
07
they live
Put on the glasses and see the hidden truth in images and text — inspired by John Carpenter's 1988 film.
08
orcs vs hobbits
A modified prisoner's dilemma sim with adjustable violence and street smarts.
09
special words
A taxonomy of borrowed intensity — special words and what they mean in the context of consumer products.
§ 03
Artifacts
(07)
01
ovid's metamorphoses
New translation from Latin to English with reading guide, metadata, and interactive journey through all 15 books. There are songs too! I really enjoyed this project and am pretty happy with some of the artwork too.
02
monstrorum historia
Digital edition of Ulisse Aldrovandi's 1642 treatise on monsters and prodigies — Latin text, English translation, and 500+ woodcut illustrations.
03
de monstris
Fortunio Liceti's 1634 book of monsters — Latin text, English translation, and every original engraved page side by side. The founding text of teratology. Together with Monstrorum Historia: the goal was to completely own the shelf of 17th-century monster books that had never before been translated into English. Pretty happy with how things turned out.
04
the 4 seasons in Finland
Four short prose vignettes set in four landscapes of the Finnish year: late winter in Lapland, the first warm day of spring, a midsummer night on Saimaa, ruska in the far north. Made with Claude Opus 4.7.
05
people with time
A collection of eclectic personalities who followed their passions.
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the velocity of hope
Book on what it's like to live through 7% GDP growth.
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books i've liked
A curated collection of recommended reads.
FIND ME → @joonaheino
FINLAND / MMXXVI